LEADER 04479nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910458196103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-89768-3 010 $a9786612897689 010 $a0-231-50350-4 024 7 $a10.7312/murp12996 035 $a(CKB)2560000000056058 035 $a(EBL)909246 035 $a(OCoLC)741350617 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000440942 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11314905 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000440942 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10491940 035 $a(PQKB)11269644 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909246 035 $a(DE-B1597)459155 035 $a(OCoLC)979969357 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231503501 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909246 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10433165 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL289768 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000056058 100 $a20100901e20102008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPolitical manhood$b[electronic resource] $ered bloods, mollycoddles, and the politics of progressive era reform /$fKevin P. Murphy 210 $aNew York ;$aChichester $cColumbia University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (318 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-12996-3 311 $a0-231-12997-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 275-292) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Of Mugwumps and Mollycoddles: Patronage and the Political Discourse of the "Third Sex" -- $t2. The Tammany Within: Good Government Reform and Political Manhood -- $t3. White Army in the White City: Civic Militarism, Urban Space, and the Urban Populace -- $t4. Socrates in the Slums: "Social Brotherhood" and Settlement House Reform -- $t5. Daddy George and Tom Brown: Sexual Scandal, Political Manhood, and Self- Government Reform -- $t6. The Problem of the Impracticables: Sentimentality, Idealism, and Homosexuality -- $tEpilogue: Red Bloods and Mollycoddles in the Twentieth Century and Beyond -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt warned against becoming "too fastidious, too sensitive to take part in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world." Roosevelt asserted that colleges should never "turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men," and cautioned that "the weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community." A paradigm of ineffectuality and weakness, the mollycoddle was "all inner life," whereas his opposite, the "red blood," was a man of action. Kevin P. Murphy reveals how the popular ideals of American masculinity coalesced around these two distinct categories. Because of its similarity to the emergent "homosexual" type, the mollycoddle became a powerful rhetorical figure, often used to marginalize and stigmatize certain political actors. Issues of masculinity not only penetrated the realm of the elite, however. Murphy's history follows the redefinition of manhood across a variety of classes, especially in the work of late nineteenth-century reformers, who trumpeted the virility of the laboring classes. By highlighting this cross-class appropriation, Murphy challenges the oppositional model commonly used to characterize the relationship between political "machines" and social and municipal reformers at the turn of the twentieth century. He also revolutionizes our understanding of the gendered and sexual meanings attached to political and ideological positions of the Progressive Era. 606 $aMasculinity$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aMale homosexuality$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSex$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSocial reformers$xSexual behavior$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1865-1933 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$y1865-1921 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMasculinity$xHistory. 615 0$aMale homosexuality$xHistory. 615 0$aSex$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial reformers$xSexual behavior 676 $a306.76/62097309034 676 $a306.7662097309034 700 $aMurphy$b Kevin P.$f1963-$01055061 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458196103321 996 $aPolitical manhood$92488175 997 $aUNINA